Changeset 45506 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US

Timestamp:

Apr 12, 2013 7:44:57 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Documentation: vbox-greeter in since 4.2.12, rephrased guest properties relation to pam_vbox.

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_AdvancedTopics.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_AdvancedTopics.xml

@@ -218 +218 @@
           <listitem>
             <para>For <emphasis role="bold">Windows Vista, Windows 7
-            and Windows 8 guests,</emphasis> the logon subsystem does not support 
+            and Windows 8 guests,</emphasis> the logon subsystem does not support
             the so-called Secure Attention Sequence
             (<computeroutput>CTRL+ALT+DEL</computeroutput>). As a result, the
@@ -414 +414 @@
         <title>VirtualBox Greeter for Ubuntu / LightDM</title>
 
-        <para>Starting with version 4.2.6, VirtualBox comes with an own greeter
+        <para>Starting with version 4.2.12, VirtualBox comes with an own greeter
         module named vbox-greeter which can be used with LightDM 1.0.1 or later.
         LightDM is the default display manager since Ubuntu 10.11 and therefore
@@ -427 +427 @@
         the Guest Additions but it is not installed and/or activated on the
         guest OS by default For installing vbox-greeter automatically upon
-        Guest Additions installation, use the 
+        Guest Additions installation, use the
         <computeroutput>--with-autologon</computeroutput> switch when starting
         the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run file:<screen>
@@ -459 +459 @@
         <note><para>vbox-greeter is independent of the graphical session chosen
         by the user (like Gnome, KDE, Unity etc). However it requires FLTK 1.3
-        for representing its user interface.</para></note>
-
-        <para>In addition to the guest property values of the
-        pam_vbox module listed above, vbox-greeter has the following guest
-        properties for further customizing its user interface, residing all in
+        for representing its own user interface.</para></note>
+
+        <para>There are numerous guest properties which can be used to further
+        customize the login experience. For automatically logging in users, the
+        same guest properties apply as for pam_vbox, see
+        <xref linkend="autologon_unix" />.</para>
+
+        <para>In addition to the above mentioned guest properties, vbox-greeter
+        allows further customization of its user interface. These special guest
+        properties all reside in
         <computeroutput>/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Greeter/</computeroutput>:</para>
 
@@ -1964 +1969 @@
       <para>Please note that these settings wouldn't prevent the user from
         reconfiguring the VM by <computeroutput>VBoxManage modifyvm</computeroutput>.</para>
-          
+
       </sect2>